Hawker Street Food Bar

**3.5 StarsLOCATION:Hawker Street Food Bar is located within the POST Market which is an indoor food hall in downtown Houston with ~20 vendors offering both local and international options. Beyond food, there are a few cute shops to browse and an amazing rooftop park that you can explore as well. On top of all that, they also have a gorgeous spiral staircase that's great for photos.PARKING:There is paid parking available at the POST. It's pretty high tech as their gates automatically recognize your car's license plate upon entry and it calculates your parking fees upon exit based on time. For M-Th: 0-75 min is free, $5/hr afterwards. For F-Sun: 0-30 min is free, $5/hr afterwards. You can either pay online or when your vehicle exists the gate. MY ORDER:[-] Bulgogi Fries from Hawker Street Food ($11.50) - flank steak, soy-sesame glaze, umami fries, kimchi emulsion, Korean gochugaru. These were well-fried and had good flavor but the sauce was pretty heavy and it was hard to eat too much of it. [-] Hawker Chicken Wings from Hawker Street Food ($10) - twice fried and glazed with chili jam. The chicken wings were fried well and the flavors weren't bad but there was way too much sauce. I'm not sure if this was an error though because our dish looked different from other pictures I saw online.

I had a very mixed food experience at Hawker, one that's left me and my friends not impressed enough to try again.The Korean lasagna was good and very hearty, but I'm unclear where the Korean part came in. The gochujang was missing in the flavor, which was dominated by the heavy veggies and not the beef.The eggplant satay was awful, overcooked and texturally off-putting with how mushy it was combined with a flat peanut butter sauce. We each tried a second bite and that was it.The croquetas were the most interesting dish we tried, but were still just okay and too small to ever want to try again.Hawker has one of the more interesting menus in the Post, but I think it suffers from being way too fusion focused instead of just serving good food.

Another concert at 713 Music Hall so another stop at the POST Market for some food before the show and decided to try Hawker due to the excellent reviews.Ordered Bulgogi Fries, Meat Platter, and the Beef Rendang (Smoked Beef Brisket) and almost everything was good. My friend thought that the Chicken Tikka Masala was way too salty but he enjoyed everything else on the Meat Platter. The Rendang was good but I thought it could be a little bit more tender. I grew up eating Indonesian beef rendang and I know that the Malaysian version is not as tender, but I'd had Malaysian rendang dishes that were more tender. So there's that.The Bulgogi Fries was awesome with plenty to share between the two of us. No complaints here.Just like everything else inside Post Market, this was a counter order so there's not really much in terms of what you can expect for service. However, after placing my order and giving my phone number (so they can text me when my order was ready), I never received a text to pick up my food. And I waited for a good minute too. I had to go back to the counter to check to see if my order was ready and apparently they'd been sitting on the counter for a bit. The cashier also claimed to have texted me so either she took my number wrong or she tried once and never tried again (because there's no way multiple texts would fail to reach me when I was receiving texts from others)

Very interesting selection of Asian fusion dishes. The quality and value were very good. The special of the day (roast beef) was very flavorful and the grilled chicken tikis was as well. We also had a very nice Brussels sprout salad. The wait for our food was reasonable and it was fresh. Definitely one of our favorite stalls at Post.

Stumbled upon this Southeast Asian fusion place at The POST and was intrigued by the meat platter description. I decided to order it and when I got it I was amazed by the smell and visuals of it. Although not as big as what I expected. The rib was drenched with sauces and was bursting with flavor. However I wasn't a fan of the texture of the rib. If it was more tender I would've given 5 stars. The sausage was okay. A bit too salty for me. It was also too tiny for me. The meat with the rice and curry was amazing. I would've like to eat a whole bowl of it. Overall the platter was decent but pretty pricy for the street food portion size.

Great! One of the best places in the food hall! It has amazing fries and we have never been disappointed by them. It is my wife's favorite in the food hall and I would highly recommend.

I tried the chicken wings and they were really good. They were ultra crispy and the sticky glaze was delicious. The wings were huge. And as such they were tough and a bit dry on the inside. This isn't a fault of the restaurant so I didn't deduct anything for it- all bigger pieces that I've tried at various places end up that way bc they Uber to be sure they are cooked all the way to the bone.

Asian street food typically is heavy snack or app type food. You can get full off of its many offerings, but you may want to walk around afterwards! It's a good thing Post Houston is a pretty place to walk around, with beautifully landscaped paths and turf on the rooftop, and a nice view of downtown. We ordered the bulgogi fries and eggplant satay from Hawker. Both dishes are big, with generous portions of the carb and proteins. I like that the eggplant rice bowl was slathered in a peanut sauce, because I love a good peanut sauce! The eggplant came out piping hot and cooked to perfection. The bulgogi fries had a balance of heat, Mayo, juicy bulgogi all on a bed of crispy fries. The Post had so many other options from 20+ restaurants, but I'm happy with what we chose!

Pretty good, but not best at Post. Took a long time for chicken wings and coconut rice. Wings were more rubbery than crispy and coconut rice very bland, no flavor. Good ideas, but execution not great.

The Satay is not satay- its a bunch of eggplants on a bed of overcooked rice smothered with sweet peanut sauce. The roti canai is a literally a tortilla. The Korean lasagna was a mess. Basically my advice is avoid this place. My wife is a Malaysian and she said this place is a disgrace and people are going to think this is Malaysian food . And it was not cheap either. So disappointing.